Tears of Sunlight

Chapter 15

"Unlike you, I can have everything I want!" she heard her own voice yell at the girl below.

As she shot down what would have been a deadly blast of magic; Twilight's eyes snapped open as she sat up in bed. Her pajama top clung to her back as she wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

It was only a dream now but it all felt like it had just happened. She hoped that the dream was a one time thing but after the last few days; Twilight found that it wasn't the case. Logically, she knew that it wasn't really her fault. Still, the very idea of what she used magic for was terrifying.

In truth, Twilight was afraid.

No. She thought to herself, There is always an explanation. There is nothing to be afraid of.

She sat in her bed for another while before she took a deep breath and put her glasses on, I will never mess with magic again. Sunset was right, I shouldn't be fooling around with something this dangerous if I don't understand it.

***

After a long weekend of homework and honest boredom; Sunset was happy to be driving her bike to school. She could already see Rainbow, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie hanging out at the portal from across the courtyard. The pedestal looked so strange without the mascot standing on top of it. Due to the fact that they already had to replace the front entrance to the school this year; Celestia and Luna were pretty sure the school board wasn't going to replace the statue any time soon.

Sunset pulled into her parking spot then headed towards the portal. Out of the corner of her eye; she saw Twilight get out of her dad's car and wave before heading to the portal as well.

"Hey guys!" Sunset greeted with a smile just as Twilight came jogging toward them, giving them all another wave.

"How was your weekend?" Twilight asked.

Fluttershy grinned; "Oh it was wonderful. We adopted out one of the cats to this lovely family. You should come help out, Sunset; Fauna is asking about how you've been."

Sunset smiled, "I do miss petting everyone. They're so fluffy!"

"You help out at the animal shelter?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah." Sunset said, "I used to bring in strays I found on the street, then Fluttershy convinced me to volunteer with her one day."

"Shining Armor got me at the shelter in the city!" Spike said, poking his head out of Twilight's bag.

"Your brother got you a puppy?" Fluttershy asked, "That's so sweet."

Twilight smiled, letting Spike out of the bag, "Yeah, it was mostly because he wanted me to get out of my lab. He thought looking after Spike would give me a reason to."

"Little did he know I would be a great lab assistant!" Spike said, letting Sunset and Fluttershy scratch his belly.

Applejack joined them not long after with a large frown evident on her face.

"What's wrong, AJ?" Rainbow asked

"I went to Sugarcube Corner for a coffee and saw that someone had graffitied it last night." She took out her phone and showed everyone that the wall had been sloppily spray painted 'Sweet as Slime' with an equally bad spray painted cupcake with worms and bugs crawling out of it.

"Well that's just rude." Twilight noted.

"And the Cake's can't afford to fix it right now." AJ said, "Some folks saw it and steered clear of the place."